Say hello to... racial stereotyping!

[danielwang]

Maybe I should whip out my calipers and start measuring heads.

Craniometry has been proven to not work at all and so has racial profiling.

Although one can argue that certain things in our environment influence our thinking, no-one can argue that all people in a race think the same. To say that is the weak attempt to fit complex things into simple packages for the feeble-minded.

True, true.

Perhaps I should start a new trend and discriminate based on hair and eye colour. Just replace "Whites" "Blacks" "australians" and "Asians" with You Eye Colour is: Blue, Green, Red, Brown/Black, and mine, Variable.

I tried this at school once. Nobody got the joke >.<

[azulmagia]

Here's an idea.

Take the corpses of a white guy and a black guy. Remove the skin from them, so that you can see nothing but muscles etc. like an anatomy book picture. Put them on slabs next to each other in a room somewhere. Now bring in a bunch of people and ask them to indicate which corpse is the white guy's and which is the black guy.

All who say things along the lines of "I don't know" or "How can I tell if they have no skin" will be rewarded.

All who actually try to indicate which is which will be punished or will simply not be rewarded, regardless of whether or not they got it right.

That'll learn 'em.

[Savia]

Craniometry has been proven to not work at all and so has racial profiling.

Actually, a new study has proven brain size is directly linked to mental capacity. The politically correct have just thrown out the ideas of racial profiling and craniometry because it gives minorities a bad name. Statistics don't like, but politically motivated civil rights activists do.

Really? I find that questionable as the vast majority of brain mass is unused goop. There are many other factors that affect 'mental capacity' (itself an undefined and abstract term), such as proportion of brain used and knowing how to think efficiently. See the IQ thread I started for more discussion on these things.

[samurairyu]

Craniometry has been proven to not work at all and so has racial profiling.

Actually, a new study has proven brain size is directly linked to mental capacity. The politically correct have just thrown out the ideas of racial profiling and craniometry because it gives minorities a bad name. Statistics don't like, but politically motivated civil rights activists do.

Craniometry doesn't measure brain size!!!!!!!!

It measures the outside of your head including hair!!!!!!!

[samurairyu]

"all is fair in love and war"
Americans love Japan
And I dont think bombing us in a suprise attack really qualifies as honor when we hadnt even declared war on them yet

Check your history my corn friend.
Before the war the U.S. and Brittain told Japan that if they built too many ships for their navy we would declare war.
6 months before the Pearl Harbor we sank a Japanese sub.
They cut diplomatic ties with us, this is always a sign of trouble.

They responded in the way that a Samurai would, strike hard, fast and first.

They don't tell you these things unless you go looking for the truth. They also will tell you that the war in the Pacific ended in 1946 back in high school but it actually ended in April of 1945.

One thing they like to keep secret is that right after the first a-bomb went off the contacted us to ask for terms on their surrender. We dropped no. 2 on them while ignoring their request.

Put that on your cob and fuck it

[dwchang]

Weren't you banned earlier? I don't seem to recall a:

"should danielwang be allowed in again?"

poll like SpPanda.

[Toecutter]

Craniometry doesn't measure brain size!!!!!!!!

It measures the outside of your head including hair!!!!!!!

Yes, but from that measurement, one can extrapolate the size of the brain. There is also the development of the brain. For example, those people whose heads are sloped back do not have as developed an understanding of future consequences, and cause and effect. Why? Because the front of the brain houses the reasoning/prediction components, which help us humans to plan ahead. It was this part of the brain that gave Cro-Magnon man an advantage over the Neanderthals, because, although the Neanderthals were rugged and had a more developed culture, their ability to plan for the coming winter was greatly reduced.

The physical characteristics of the skull can tell one a great deal about the evolution of a particular race to survive the challenges of their environment. This is NOT racism. It is science.

[downwithpants]

i thought wang was a chinese name...
are you chinese (of chinese descent)?

[samurairyu]

Craniometry doesn't measure brain size!!!!!!!!

It measures the outside of your head including hair!!!!!!!

Yes, but from that measurement, one can extrapolate the size of the brain. There is also the development of the brain. For example, those people whose heads are sloped back do not have as developed an understanding of future consequences, and cause and effect. Why? Because the front of the brain houses the reasoning/prediction components, which help us humans to plan ahead. It was this part of the brain that gave Cro-Magnon man an advantage over the Neanderthals, because, although the Neanderthals were rugged and had a more developed culture, their ability to plan for the coming winter was greatly reduced.

The physical characteristics of the skull can tell one a great deal about the evolution of a particular race to survive the challenges of their environment. This is NOT racism. It is science.

Bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm an Anthro Major Boy!!!!!!!

Neanderthal didn't have a more developed culture fool!!!! they failed because cro-mags were on the move and were simply better hunters, primarily because Neanders lived in small families and Humans(that's all cro-mag was no more no less) lived in larger communites of about 50 to 100 people!!!!!

According to your "theory" of getting the size of the brain from the outside then the study by Alex Hirdlickta that tried to prove you right says otherwise. Hirdy found that hick women from Appalacia had bigger brains than Harvard prof.s and he tried to justify Eugenics!!!!!!!

The only difference in skulls that can indicate origins is the nose. Afro-decendants hace a nasal gutter to allow air to cool the blood while everone else has a nasal cill to keep cold air from comin in.
THAT IS ALL!!!!!!

You need to shut your ignorant mouth before your idiocy is proved further you rascist moron!!!!!!

[Toecutter]

Check your history my corn friend.
Before the war the U.S. and Brittain told Japan that if they built too many ships for their navy we would declare war.
6 months before the Pearl Harbor we sank a Japanese sub.
They cut diplomatic ties with us, this is always a sign of trouble.

They responded in the way that a Samurai would, strike hard, fast and first.

They don't tell you these things unless you go looking for the truth. They also will tell you that the war in the Pacific ended in 1946 back in high school but it actually ended in April of 1945.

One thing they like to keep secret is that right after the first a-bomb went off the contacted us to ask for terms on their surrender. We dropped no. 2 on them while ignoring their request.

Put that on your cob and fuck it

You need to check your history, jackass!

The Japanese sent two peace-minded ambassadors to continue talks with the US, but they were given no orders. They were merely sent as a diversionary tactic to keep us on a short leash. Quite a few admirals and generals knew the attack on Pearl was coming, especially from some bizarre radio intercepts, and the movement of the main Japanese carriers towards the Phillippines. But they couldn't get the politically-influenced officers off their asses, and do something about it.

The message the Japanese sent to be decoded through their ambassadors was meant to reach the appropriate US officials just before the attack, but the ambassadors had no secretaries, and weren't any good at typing. This resulted in the final declaration of war arriving hours after the attack on Pearl.

It was not the attack of an honorable warrior class. It was a shrewd, politically-backed assault on a people who were defending themselves from an overly aggressive adversary, which was trying to make up for something.

The fact the Japanese slaughtered many thousands of innocent native women and children from the Phillippines by making them jump off of cliffs, or executing them in mass graves, is more than enough proof of their true nature. The concept of honor was always expendable when a decisive victory was required.